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Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics Letters

Formation of Bose-Einstein condensate structures in laser fields: Semiclassical approach and electrodynamic effects

Federica Cattani, Dan Anderson, Arkady V. Kim, M. Lisak

Published Jun 1, 2005• 5 citations
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Abstract

The formation of Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) structures via electromagnetically induced interactions is analyzed within a semiclassical approach, wherein an improved interaction potential is obtained. This analysis shows how the laser-induced forces can lead to self-confinement of the ground state even with a homogeneous field. It furthermore indicates that the vector character of the field can be crucially important, since it can change the type of nonlinearity, thus strongly modifying the BEC structures.

DOI
10.1134/1.2029944

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